The former Dawson’s Creek star noticed distinct personality traits right away with both children.

“The biggest surprise is how different they are right out of the gate,” he explains. “They come out with their own thing. My son’s a thinker. You can tell already.”

And even though they are both so young – daughterOlivia is 18 months – Van Der Beek already hopes his kids do not pursue his line of work when they get older.

“There’s no part of me that would ever push them into doing [acting] professionally,” he says with a laugh.

“As a kid, it’s a great form of expression and it’s good to do it in a community level like a high school, but professionally I don’t know. I would encourage them to explore all kinds of possibilities.”

Watched the show tonight – LOVED it!! Almost spit out my wine when “I Don’t Want to Wait” started playing.🙂

I still manage to get my free time in, but that’s only because my kids (4 and 7) HAVE to be in their rooms, in bed (although the 7-year-old can read) by 8 pm. Then it’s mama time!

Sarah
on April 12th, 2012

The show really is hilarious and he is GREAT as “himself”

itznia
on April 18th, 2012

Does he think he just uncovered this little nugget of wisdom and the rest of us have been in the dark?!!!!!!! Hahahahahaaa!

lisa
on April 18th, 2012

sorry, but i really didn’t like the show…i mean the “b” what the heck? who would ever want to be friends with her? i’ve never known anyone like that, and if i did, i wouldn’t want to be friends with her. did not like the show at all since it was not believable.

max
on April 21st, 2012

lisa,
you’ve obviously never lived in an apartment building if you don’t think this show is believable. “the b” is more common a personality than you think. welcome to the real world!